TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Alabama coach Nick Saban is among the 16 semifinalists for the Maxwell Club's Coach of the Year award.

The Crimson Tide coach is one of three from the SEC, joining Auburn's Gus Malzahn and Missouri's Gary Pinkel.

Despite winning three of the past four BCS national championships, Saban hasn't collected too many coach of the year awards in recent years. He was the Associated Press' coach of the year in 2003 at LSU and 2008 at Alabama, and SEC Coach of the Year in 2003, 2008 and 2009.

Saban is a three-time winner of the Over the Mountain Touchdown Club's Bobby Bowden Coach of the Year award.